x, 320 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Dangerous memories, underdevelopment, and the Bible in colonial Caribbean experience / Nathaniel Samuel Murrell -- Reggae and Rastafari in Salvador, Bahia : the Caribbean connection in Brazil / Janet L. DeCosmo -- The faith of the people : the divina pastora devotions of Trinidad / Gerald Boodoo -- Cubans in Babylon : exodus and exile / Miguel A. De La Torre -- Understandings and interpretations of Scripture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Jamaica : the Baptists as case study / Horace O. Russell -- Is this the Word of the Lord? : in search of biblical theology and hermeneutics, the eastern Caribbean / John Holder -- Text and the rhetoric of change : Bible and decolonization in post-World War II Caribbean political discourse / Leslie R. James -- Recasting identity in Ruth and Hindu Indo-Guyanese women / Hemchand Gossai -- Identity and subversion in Babylon : strategies for "resisting against the system" in the music of Bob Marley and the Wailers / J. Richard Middleton -- Biblical hermeneutics in modern Caribbean experience : paradigms and prospects / Noel Leo Erskine -- Daughters of Jah : the impact of Rastafarian womanhood in the Caribbean, the United States, Britain, and Canada / Loretta Collins -- Riddim wise and Scripture smart : interview and interpretation with Ras Benjamin Zephaniah / Darren J.N. Middleton -- Holy Piby : Blackman's Bible and Garveyite Ethiopianist epic with commentary / Nathaniel Samuel Murrell

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